“I knew I couldnt trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldnt have to.”

“Do you think you wear a mask?Im wearing one right now. Valentino smiled softly. We both are.Its a sad thought.Yes, he said. But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secret...”

“There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.”

“Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?”

“It was an uncomfortable feeling, staring into the darkest moments of someones soul without them knowing.”

“I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.”

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”

“I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”